Optica

Papers
(The median citation count of Optica is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stimulated emission does not radiate in a pure dipole pattern539
Coordinated international comparisons between optical clocks connected via fiber and satellite links268
Computational imaging with meta-optics177
Transparent organic photodiodes for high-detectivity CMOS image sensors161
X-ray dark-field via spectral propagation-based imaging150
Monolithic piezoelectrically tunable hybrid integrated laser with sub-fiber laser coherence129
Modeling off-axis diffraction with the least-sampling angular spectrum method127
Estimation of a parameter encoded in the modal structure of a light beam: a quantum theory123
Deterministic photonic quantum computation in a synthetic time dimension111
Field-conjugate adaptive optics enables extended field-of-view microendoscopy for deep brain imaging111
High-resolution long-range swept-source OCT for volumetric imaging and metrology up to 200  m111
Collaborative publication of related articles puts focus on emerging topics: editorial107
Dual-frequency-comb UV spectroscopy with one million resolved comb lines102
On-Chip Backward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Lithium Niobate Waveguides98
Fast shaping control of x ray beams using a closed-loop adaptive bimorph deformable mirror95
Mask3D-compatible full-vectorial Hopkins imaging for lithographic modeling90
Compressive hyperspectral Raman imaging via randomly interleaved scattering projection87
All-step-index-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser84
Entanglement swapping with spatially multiplexed modes in an atomic-ensemble quantum memory in a single excitation regime83
Active laser cooling of a centimeter-scale torsional oscillator81
Hyperspectral in-memory computing with optical frequency combs and programmable optical memories81
Universal mask for hard x rays79
Ultrasensitive Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Detection with Nanopillar Photonic Crystal Biosensors77
Anisotropically multiplanar-focal photon-sieve splitter from extreme ultraviolet to soft X-ray73
Fabrication-integrated design for diffractive optical elements71
Spectrally resolved linewidth enhancement factor of a semiconductor frequency comb70
Ultra-widely tunable high-power terahertz parametric generation based on synchronized sub-nanosecond pump and nanosecond seeder70
Velocity-based optoretinography for clinical applications69
Nonlinear integrated quantum photonics with AlGaAs67
Data encryption with chaotic light in the long wavelength infrared atmospheric window66
Driven-dissipative phases and dynamics in non-Markovian nonlinear photonics65
Dissipative Kerr solitons in integrated Fabry–Perot microresonators65
Experimental adaptive Bayesian estimation for a linear function of distributed phases in photonic quantum networks62
Robust method for certifying genuine high-dimensional quantum steering with multimeasurement settings61
Quantum-enhanced stimulated Brillouin scattering spectroscopy and imaging59
GHz guided optomechanics in planar semiconductor microcavities58
Free-space coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with low dark counts58
Efficient parametric down-conversion by gain-trapped solitons57
Reconfigurable photon localization by coherent drive and dissipation in photonic lattices56
Article withdrawn55
Better than a lens? Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio through pupil splitting55
X-ray phase-contrast microtomography of soft tissues using a compact laboratory system with two-directional sensitivity54
Topological quantum walk in synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields with optical mesh lattices53
Cryogenic feedforward of a photonic quantum state53
Parallel photonic accelerator for decision making using optical spatiotemporal chaos53
On-demand harnessing of photonic soliton molecules52
Pound–Drever–Hall feedforward: laser phase noise suppression beyond feedback52
Near-field imaging of dipole emission modulated by an optical grating51
Large circular dichroism in the emission from an incandescent metasurface50
Wide-field bond-selective fluorescence imaging: from single-molecule to cellular imaging beyond video rate50
Top-down convergence of near-infrared photonics with silicon substrate-integrated electronics50
Distinguishing under- and over-coupled resonances without prior knowledge49
Near-unity excess noise factor of staircase avalanche photodiodes49
Supercontinua from integrated gallium nitride waveguides49
Demonstration of high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers with 1-kHz-class intrinsic linewidths: erratum49
Overcoming the diffraction limit by exploiting unmeasured scattering media48
Deep-learning based image reconstruction for MRI-guided near-infrared spectral tomography48
Electro-optic transduction in silicon via gigahertz-frequency nanomechanics48
Higher-dimensional symmetric informationally complete measurement via programmable photonic integrated optics48
Sum-of-squares bounds on surface-enhanced Raman scattering47
Semi-device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in a photonic quantum switch47
Deep multiband photodetectors enabled by reconfigurable band alignment in van der Waals heterostructures47
Optimal input excitations for suppressing nonlinear instabilities in multimode fibers47
High-speed 4D fluorescence light field tomography of whole freely moving organisms47
Coherent control in quartz-enhanced photoacoustics: fingerprinting a trace gas at ppm-level within seconds46
Microcavity platform for widely tunable optical double resonance46
Trends in relativistic laser–matter interaction: the promises of structured light45
Photonic origami of silica on a silicon chip with microresonators and concave mirrors45
Experimental demonstration of continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution over optical fiber44
Determination of stress waves and their effect on the damage extension induced by surface defects of KDP crystals under intense laser irradiation44
Planar wide-angle-imaging camera enabled by metalens array44
Global phase diagram of bound states in the continuum44
Defect-engineered ring laser harmonic frequency combs43
100  GHz bandwidth, 1 volt integrated electro-optic Mach–Zehnder modulator at near-IR wavelengths43
Highly polarized emission from organic single-crystal light-emitting devices with a polarization ratio of 17643
Intensity-preserving self-similar beams42
T staging esophageal tumors with x rays42
High-resolution and sensitivity bi-directional x-ray phase contrast imaging using 2D Talbot array illuminators42
Transient light shift register mechanism of bi-chromatic pulse generation42
On the applicability of Kirchhoff’s law to the lasing regime42
Low-cost electrothermally actuated MEMS mirrors for high-speed linear raster scanning41
Transverse mode control in quantum enhanced interferometers: a review and recommendations for a new generation41
Cryogenic integrated spontaneous parametric down-conversion41
Single photon multiclock lock-in detection by picosecond timestamping40
Silicon photonic neuromorphic accelerator using integrated coherent transmit-receive optical sub-assemblies40
Interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy imaging with an electronically variable time-of-flight filter40
3D sympathetic cooling and detection of levitated nanoparticles39
Low-loss integration of high-density polymer waveguides with silicon photonics for co-packaged optics39
Chiral topological add–drop filter for integrated quantum photonic circuits39
Integrated-waveguide-based acousto-optic modulation with complete optical conversion39
Massively multiplexed wide-field photon correlation sensing39
Idealized four-wave mixing dynamics in a nonlinear Schrödinger equation fiber system39
Approaching optimum phase measurement in the presence of amplifier noise39
Transportable single-crystal silicon ultra-stable cavity toward space applications38
2D material platform for overcoming the amplitude–phase tradeoff in ring resonators38
Compact and scalable polarimetric self-coherent receiver using a dielectric metasurface37
Seeded stimulated X-ray emission at 5.9  keV37
Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors37
Ultrafast plasma-based terahertz modulator36
In situ tuning of optomechanical crystals with nano-oxidation36
Third-harmonic generation monitoring of femtosecond-laser-induced in-volume functional modifications35
Optical simulation of a quantum cooling engine powered by entangled measurements35
Three-dimensional terahertz near-field imaging evaluation of cochlea35
Transport-of-intensity Fourier ptychographic diffraction tomography: defying the matched illumination condition35
Integrated quantum communication network and vibration sensing in optical fibers34
Spin–orbit photonic diode from biomimetic 3D chiral liquid crystal architectures34
Error-mitigated photonic variational quantum eigensolver using a single-photon ququart34
Simultaneous spectral recovery and CMOS micro-LED holography with an untrained deep neural network34
Achromatic arbitrary polarization control in the terahertz band by tunable phase compensation34
Period-doubled Floquet solitons34
Back action evasion in optical lever detection33
Half-wavelength-pitch silicon optical phased array with a 180° field of view, high sidelobe suppression ratio, and complex-pattern beamforming33
Metasurface-tunable lasing polarizations in a microcavity33
Self-evolving ghost imaging33
Unveiling the evolution of light within photonic integrated circuits32
Soliton-pair dynamical transition in mode-locked lasers32
Ultra-intense femtosecond laser interactions with aligned nanostructures32
Shaping polarization within an ultrafast laser pulse using dielectric metasurfaces32
Experimental investigation of a non-Abelian gauge field in 2D perovskite photonic platform31
Photonic and electrochemical biosensors for near-patient tests–a critical comparison31
Quantum optical memory for entanglement distribution31
Multiscale characterization of myelin distribution with polarized THG microscopy31
Quantitative Infrared Spectroscopy of Aerosols: Mie Theory Modeling with Experimental Validation31
Topological spin defects of light31
Automatic mitigation of dynamic atmospheric turbulence using optical phase conjugation for coherent free-space optical communications30
Flat magic window30
Enhanced penetration depth in optical coherence tomography and photoacoustic microscopy in vivo enabled by absorbing dye molecules30
Ultrafast temporal phase-resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy in the molecular frame30
Integrated chirped photonic-crystal cavities in gallium phosphide for broadband soliton generation30
Laboratory soft X-ray setup for transient absorption experiments in the liquid phase using a laser-produced plasma source29
Diffraction-gated real-time ultrahigh-speed mapping photography29
Low threshold mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in GaAs0.51Sb0.49/InP waveguides29
Purcell-enhanced, directional light–matter interaction in a waveguide-coupled nanocavity28
Spatiotemporal refraction of light in an epsilon-near-zero indium tin oxide layer: frequency shifting effects arising from interfaces28
Phase noise matching in resonant metasurfaces for intrinsic sensing stability28
Observation of a triangular-lattice pattern in nonlinear wave mixing with optical vortices28
Simultaneous multi-plane imaging light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for simultaneously acquiring neuronal activity at varying depths28
Metamaterial engineered silicon photonic coupler for whispering gallery mode microsphere and disk resonators28
Adaptive time modulation technique for multiplexed on-chip particle detection across scales27
Optimal structured light waves generation in 3D volumes using communication mode optics27
Inverse problem solver for multiple light scattering using modified Born series27
Fast implicit diffusive dark-field retrieval for single-exposure, single-mask x-ray imaging27
Interferometric phase stability from Gaussian and space–time light sheets27
Online learning of the transmission matrix of dynamic scattering media27
MEMS-integrated metasurfaces for dynamic linear polarizers27
Ultra-high numerical aperture waveguide-integrated meta beam shaper27
Non-mechanical three-dimensional LiDAR system based on flash and beam-scanning dually modulated photonic crystal lasers27
Energy-Time Ptychography for one-dimensional Phase Retrieval27
Scalable machine learning-assisted clear-box characterization for optimally controlled photonic circuits26
Exceptional points with memory in a microcavity Brillouin laser26
Transient field-resolved reflectometry at 50–100  THz26
In vitro and in vivo NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera26
Photonic neural field on a silicon chip: large-scale, high-speed neuro-inspired computing and sensing26
Partially coherent diffractive optical neural network26
Generation of squeezed quantum microcombs with silicon nitride integrated photonic circuits26
Adaptive point-scan imaging beyond the frame rate–resolution limit with scene-reactive scan trajectories26
Quantitative nonlinear optical polarimetry with high spatial resolution26
High-speed detection of 1550  nm single photons with superconducting nanowire detectors25
Fluorescence matrix–vector multiplication: realization of in-memory-display computing25
Non-redundant optical phased array: erratum25
Anisotropic quantum transport in a programmable photonic topological insulator25
Non-diffracting polarization features around far-field zeros of electromagnetic radiation25
GHz repetition rate mid-infrared frequency comb spectroscopy of fast chemical reactions25
Realization of an integrated coherent photonic platform for scalable matrix operations25
Fluorescent wavefront shaping using incoherent iterative phase conjugation25
Revealing the embedded phase in single-pixel quantum ghost imaging25
Design and single-shot fabrication of lensless cameras with arbitrary point spread functions24
Phase-cycling and double-quantum two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy using a common-path birefringent interferometer24
Scaled local gate controller for optically addressed qubits24
Monolithic deformable mirror based on lithium niobate single crystal for high-resolution X-ray adaptive microscopy24
Multi-pass cells for post-compression of ultrashort laser pulses24
Unbalanced-basis-misalignment-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution24
Optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal ring resonators24
High-fidelity ptychographic imaging of highly periodic structures enabled by vortex high harmonic beams23
In situ high-harmonic microscopy of a nanostructured solid23
Hyperentanglement quantum communication over a 50  km noisy fiber channel23
Universal programmable and self-configuring optical filter23
Demonstration of universal time-reversal for qubit processes23
Tailoring ultrahigh index plasmonic combinatorial metamaterials for SEIRA and SERS by tuning the fill fraction23
Experimental investigation of the angular symmetry of optical force in a solid dielectric23
Approaching the thermal emissivity limit with ultrathin MXene films23
Single-shot spontaneous Raman scattering for time-resolved one-dimensional hypersonic flow diagnostics22
Electro-optic sampling of classical and quantum light22
Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction of synchrotron radiation22
Probing neuronal functions with precise and targeted laser ablation in the living cortex: comment22
High-speed ultra-broadband detection based on an interfacial work function internal photoemission detector22
Strain-concentration for fast, compact photonic modulation and non-volatile memory22
Spectral synthesis of multimode lasers to the Fourier limit in integrated Fabry–Perot diamond resonators21
Optical tomography reconstructing 3D motion and structure of multiple-scattering samples under rotational actuation21
Modular chip-integrated photonic control of artificial atoms in diamond waveguides21
Hybrid training of optical neural networks21
On-chip Unitary Generation of Arbitrary Complex Spatial Photonic States21
High-rate 16-node quantum access network based on a passive optical network21
Ptychographic characterization of spatiotemporal wavepackets21
Quantum-enhanced phase imaging without coincidence counting21
Probing electron-hole coherence in strongly driven 2D materials using high-harmonic generation21
Virtual orbital angular momentum-based phase clock21
Mono-drive single-sideband modulation via optical delay lines on thin-film lithium niobate21
Nanoscale dark-field imaging in full-field transmission X-ray microscopy21
Phase retrieval framework for direct reconstruction of the projected refractive index applied to ptychography and holography21
Scalable low-latency optical phase sensor array20
Real-time two-photon interference from distinct molecules on the same chip20
High-efficiency high-numerical-aperture metalens designed by maximizing the efficiency limit20
Dose-efficient automatic differentiation for ptychographic reconstruction20
All-glass miniature GHz repetition rate femtosecond laser cavity20
Selective tumor ablation via femtosecond laser resonant with collagen20
Multislice computational model for birefringent scattering20
Coulomb coupling between two nanospheres trapped in a bichromatic optical tweezer20
Autonomous on-chip interferometry for reconfigurable optical waveform generation20
Heterogeneous integration of a high-speed photodiode with microcavity solitons for on-chip mmWave generation20
Exceptional refrigeration of motions beyond their mass and temperature limitations20
High-gain optical parametric amplification with a continuous-wave pump using a domain-engineered thin-film lithium niobate waveguide20
Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states20
On-chip interference of scattering from two individual molecules20
Silicon-based integrated polarization-independent magneto-optical isolator20
Ultrafast modulation of terahertz waves using on-chip dual-layer near-field coupling20
Gratings weave coherence carpets with non-diffracting coherence strands20
Terahertz imaging through emissivity control20
Gaussian random field generator for simulating partially coherent undulator radiation20
Two-photon pumped exciton-polariton condensation19
High-temporal-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with free-electron and optical lasers19
Spin-multiplexed metasurface inverse-design based on a bi-directional deep neural network for terahertz wavefront control19
Mono-cycle terahertz pulses from intersubband shift currents in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells19
Generation and applications of spectral-spatially correlated principal mode in multimode fibers19
Unlocking freeform optics design for extended light sources19
Small-sized, ultra-low phase noise photonic microwave oscillators at X-Ka bands19
Synthetic spatial aperture holographic third harmonic generation microscopy19
Coherent dynamics in an optical quantum dot with phonons and photons19
Encrypted optical information in nonlinear chaotic systems uncovered using neural networks18
Giant terahertz polarization rotation in ultrathin films of aligned carbon nanotubes: publisher’s note18
Photonic integrated circuits with bound states in the continuum: erratum18
Low loss fiber-coupled volumetric interconnects fabricated via direct laser writing18
Real-space nanophotonic field manipulation using non-perturbative light–matter coupling18
Deep photonic reservoir computing recurrent network18
Quantitative blood flow estimation in vivo by optical speckle image velocimetry: publisher’s note18
High orbital angular momentum lasing with tunable degree of chirality in a symmetry-broken microcavity18
High-resolution wavefront sensing and aberration analysis of multi-spectral extreme ultraviolet beams18
Phase-diversity-based wavefront sensing for fluorescence microscopy18
Angle- and polarization-resolved luminescence from suspended and hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated MoSe2 monolayers18
Bijective-constrained cycle-consistent deep learning for optics-free imaging and classification18
Sub-60-nm isotropic 3D super-resolution microscopy through self-interference field excitation18
Accelerating Brillouin fiber sensing via destructive-interference-enabled precise raw data acquisition and nonredundant image denoising17
Robust and adaptable quantum key distribution network without trusted nodes17
Diffraction modeling between arbitrary non-parallel planes using angular spectrum rearrangement17
Ultra-broadband magneto-optical isolators and circulators on a silicon nitride photonics platform17
Hacking measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution17
Few-cycle 65-µJ pulses at 11.4  µm for ultrafast nonlinear longwave-infrared spectroscopy17
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution at 10 GBaud using an integrated photonic-electronic receiver17
Ultrafast, Fano resonant colorimetric sensor with high chromaticity beyond standard RGB17
Micro-optics fabrication using blurred tomography17
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